The Poolie Bunker

My GP is in the One Life centre.
I can't get a telephone appointment with them never mind face to face.

Can anyone recommend one that is better?

Thanks.

I got appointment in one life 2 months ago for this December.

Our country is finished.

There’s different surgeries in there, mine’s okay, not what it was but okay.

Mines ok, always get an appointment and sometimes a telephone chat is easier. If it's a longer terms issue then it can take longer.

Wow Kev, your cup isn't even half full. It m u st be depressing in your head and a Pools fan as well.

depends who you are having a chat with. even a good doctor is harder to understand due to there accent on the phone than face to face. seems to amplify the accents many have and it can work the same for them with you.

join BUPA. its the future and not garlic bread.

Bankhouse Surgery?? That's mine. I tried a few times to get an appointment about a year ago with no luck. When I phoned again I mentioned that it was affecting my mental health...which it was...I got a face to face appointment within 5 days.
What i don't get is this....before covid when you went to the Doctors no matter what time during the day the waiting room was always rammed. Go now no matter what time during the day and you are lucky to see more than 3 or 4 other people while you are waiting to go in.

funny you say that as its exactly the same at mine.

But they say that they are seeing more people than ever before.
I think they enjoyed working at home during covid and want it to carry on.

Never had a problem, but about a year ago suddenly found it difficult ….and now they aren’t taking on any new patients…what’s going on….?

All GP Surgeries are run the same way now, if Farage has his way they will all be run by insurance companies, he has mentioned many times about insurance policies for healthcare, isn’t that what we pay N.I. Contributions and Income tax for ?
Operose Health, a UK subsidiary of the US healthcare giant Centene Corporation, owns the most GP surgeries in England, with around 70 practices. They are the largest provider of GP services to the NHS.

think ours is medicare or something. another large organisation where eventually they,ll all merge into one. oh for the old days of a doctors plaque outside there house with a single name on it with a single practise nurse and getting first in the queue when it opened.

My first GPs were in a big house in Stockton Road, 2 older GPs one you went to if you wanted a sick the note, tea and sympathy fella the other one if you had an ailment, very stern, you couldn’t pull the wool over his eyes.I don’t remember how you got an appointment but I can ever remember waiting for days though, basically a walk in service, there was no reception area or receptionist.

I don't really understand what the savings are in having multiple surgeries in the same health centre. Surely it's a saving to only have 1 large surgery in that place then you cut down on all the things like reception areas, seating etc

some old time doctors used to live in the house where part of it was converted for there practise. if they retired another bought it and carried on the same. at least they knew you and you them and not seeing a different one every visit. if you did not like that doctor you were able to change to another and i never heard of anyone getting a refusal. at school there was a doctors son who carried on his fathers practise when he qualified and i went out with his younger sister a couple of times. seemed odd going to the doctors house on a saturday to pick her up and waiting in the waiting room for her coming down.

The useless fuckas sent me on a wild goosechase caused by the new works doctor referring half the workforce to their GPS for minor issues.

I'm in the Victoria Rd doctors but had to go to Belle Vue doctors. Got there and they said its a telephone appointment today. Wait for a text new appointment.
Went back a week later and they said you should be at Wynyard Rd.
Then a new appointment back at Victoria Rd a week later.
Your appointment is tomorrow not today.
Finally see the doctor and he said I can't find anything wrong but still go to One Life in December.

No wonder Grey says I need tablets.

Our doctors moved to a swanky new surgery a few years beck and I had to turn up to have stitches taken out on my leg…I was pointed to a seating area and told to wait for the nurse…which I did …a lady approached me to ask if I’d like a tea and a biscuit which I thought was very nice …later another lady then asked me if I waited to go into the surgery and asked me where my wife was……puzzled I said ‘for stitches?’……then I discovered my part of the open plan waiting area was for Vasectomy consultation…then the fact every one else around me was a couple mede sense…I’d forgotten all about it till the wife had to tell everyone we were out with in the pub on Tuesday

If you were designing a health service from scratch you would not have all these surgeries littered all over the town ran as private enterprises by the GP partners for profit. You would employ salaried GPs and have them in a BIG building located in the centre of town with good transport links and some diagnostics on site.

sound fine but for me and plenty of others they want to see a doctor they know and not a different one every time you go even if its years between visits. doubt it would solve getting appointments as there is bound to be a receptionist at the end of the phone who thinks they are more qualified than any GP known to man. The joke about phone appointments only was a true one about the woman who went to reception for an appointment only to be told its by phone only only to go outside, ring up and get one in about a hours time. she walked back in and said i,m here for my appointment with dirty looks given from both sides. the woman in question was her in the kitchen.